Once again, I am serving on the PASS Program Committee this year for the App Dev Track. As we are about to start the reviewing process, I had some thoughts that I wanted to share. Last year, we had approximately 200 abstracts to review. It should be a similar volume this year. For me, abstracts usually go into three piles - ...

Last week I spoke at the SQL Konferenz in Darmstad near Frankfurt. The conference was great and I meet a lot of good SQL friends over there. For anyone interested here you can find slide & demos of the session I delivered:
(Near) Real-Time Data Integration with SQL Server, On-Premises & Cloud ...

On the first days of February I’ll be speaking at the German SQL Konferenz 2015 in Darmstad (Frankfurt) with a lot of other friends:
http://www.sqlkonferenz.de/agenda.aspx
I’ll be talking about two topics that my developer side love at most : Service Broker and “Dynamic Schema”:
Schema-less table & Dynamic Schema
How to manage a ...

I will be presenting a full-day workshop, “Mastering Execution Plan Analysis” on Friday 15 May 2015 as part of SQL Saturday #369 in Lisbon, Portugal. Early-bird tickets are priced at just €135 and are available until 28 February 2015, when the price increases to the regular rate of €150. Tickets can be purchased via EventBrite (where the full ...

Central USA IT Pro Community News – Jan 2015
There are lots of free, in-person and virtual events happening in the central USA over the next few weeks. Don't miss out on training, ebooks, and other goodies!
Come to the Nashville SQL Saturday on Jan 17!Upcoming Events
Jan 10th – Kansas City – SharePoint Saturday
Jan ...

Over the years I have spent working with SQL Server, the personal time investment that has repaid itself more than any other is becoming intimately familiar with execution plans and how they can be used to diagnose and correct performance problems. There is nothing I enjoy more than talking about execution plans, the query optimizer, and how ...

Now that the PASS Summit 2014 is over, I remember having a hard time deciding which sessions to attend and can't wait for the USB to arrive. This year, I was on the Program Committee for the first time ever. I would recommend the experience to all speakers or potential speakers at some point. I know with the explosion of SQL ...

Recently, a partner of Scalability Experts asked me to write a blog relating to the Day 1 Keynote of PASS Summit 2014. Here is a link to the post.
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/keeping-your-eyes-on-the-skies-a-partners-view-on-sql-server-and-ucs
Enjoy!

Most of the guidance you’ll find about Visual Studio Ultimate Load Tests suggests that they are only for load testing Web Performance tests. Actually, they can be used to load other types of tests, such as unit tests. I demonstrated this at STARWEST last week. Instead of load testing the execution of a database or other...

One of my favorite events is just around the corner! It's just a few days until SQL Saturday Dublin, Ireland’s largest SQL Server conference on the 19th/20th September, run as a community event by the SQL Ireland User Group.
Have You Seen the Schedule?
The schedule is complete with an amazing line up of speakers from around the ...